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Nina Foch
Age: 84 (passed away Dec. 5th, 2008)
Height: 5' 9"
Birth Place: Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
Born: Apr. 20th, 1924
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BIOGRAPHY: A leading lady of the 1940s, the tall and blonde Foch usually played cool, aloof and often foreign, women of sophistication. As film roles became harder to find, Foch proved to versatile in many areas. She was a panelist on several TV quiz shows, worked as George Stevens (I)' assistant director for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and directed plays. Since the 1960s, she has been an acting teacher for USC and the American Film Institute.
TRIVIA:
- Ex-daughter-in-law of 'Lawrence Lipton' (qv).
- Her parents divorced when she was a toddler.
- Her father, Dirk Fock, was born in Batavia, Java (where her grandfather was governor general of the Dutch East Indies) on June 18, 1886. He died in Locarno, Switzerland on May 24, 1973. He studied, composed and conducted orchestral music in Europe, but made his American Debut as conductor with a specially assembled orchestra at Carnegie Hall in N.Y. on April 12, 1920; also conducted orchestral groups elsewhere in the U.S., and in Vienna.
- In Italy, most of her films were dubbed by 'Rosetta Calavetta' (qv), but was also dubbed by 'Lidia Simoneschi' (qv) (in _My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)_ (qv)); 'Rina Morelli' (qv) (in _The Ten Commandments (1956)_ (qv)) and 'Giovanna Scotto' (qv).
- Fell ill while teaching "Directing the Actor," a popular course at USC's School of Cinematic Arts, where she taught for 40 years. She died a day later at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center of complications from long-term myelodysplasia, a blood disorder.
- Played the first person to be murdered in the long-running series 'Columbo', in the pilot episode 'Prescription: Murder'.
- Last name "Foch" rhymes with "Gosh".
- Daughter of Dirk Fock, conductor of the Amsterdams Concertgebouworkest, and actress and singer 'Consuelo Flowerton' (qv).
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